#  Christine Cezar 

 

 



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 email <cacezar@seas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

**Education**Ph.D. Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2015M.S. Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009B.S. Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2008

**Research Focus**Skeletal muscle regenerationBiomaterials for triggered drug and cell delivery

**Publications**1. **Cezar CA**, Roche ET, Vandenburgh HH, Duda GN, Walsh CJ, Mooney DJ (2016). Biologic-free mechanically induced muscle regeneration. *PNAS* 113:1534-1539.
2. **Cezar CA**, Mooney DJ. Biomaterial-based approaches to skeletal muscle repair (2015). *Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews* 84:188–197.
3. **Cezar CA**, Kennedy SM, Mehta M, Weaver JC, Gu L, Vandenburgh H, Mooney DJ. Biphasic ferrogels for triggered drug and cell delivery (2014). *Advanced Healthcare Materials* 3:1869-1876.
4. Huebsch N, Kearney C, Zhao X, Kim J, **Cezar CA**, Suo Z, Mooney DJ. Ultrasound-triggered disruption and self-healing of reversibly-crosslinked hydrogels for drug delivery and enhanced chemotherapy (2014). *PNAS* 111:9762-9767.
5. Shvartsman D, Storrie-White H, Lee K, Kearney C, Brudno Y, Ho N, **Cezar CA**, McCann C, Anderson E, Koullias J, Tapia JC, Vandenburg HH, Lichtman JW, Mooney DJ. Sustained delivery of VEGF activates reinnervation and reperfusion in ischemic skeletal muscles via NGF/GDNF signaling (2014). *Molecular Therapy* 22:1243-53.
6. Borselli C, **Cezar CA**, Shvartsman D, Vandenburgh HH, Mooney DJ. The role of multifunctional delivery scaffold in the ability of cultured myoblasts to promote muscle regeneration (2011). *Biomaterials* 32:8905-14.
7. Zhao X, Kim J, **Cezar CA**, Huebsch N, Bouhadir K, Mooney DJ. Active scaffolds for on-demand drug and cell delivery (2011). *PNAS* 108:67-72.
8. Borselli C, Storrie H, Benesch-Lee F, Shvartsman D, **Cezar C**, Lichman JW, Vandenburgh HH, Mooney DJ. Functional muscle regeneration with combined delivery of angiogenesis and myogenesis factors (2010). *PNAS* 107:3287-3292.
9. **Cezar CA**, Mortisen DJ, Ratner BD. Protein-immobilized poly (2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid) hydrogels for cardiac tissue engineering (2007). *JURIBE* 7:7-12.



 

 

 





 

 

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